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Buddhism

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THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA  In the Pali canon, the Buddha is presented as a man, but an extraordinary one, whose body bore the 32 signs of a mahapurusha (great man).  He is the Tathagata, one who has come thus (tatha) and gone (gota). The Buddha was born as Siddhartha son of Suddhodana, chef of the Sakya clan, who ruled from Kapilavastu. His mother Maya gave birth to him in a grove at Lumbini, while traveling towards her parents' home and died within a few days. Brahmanas saw the 32 marks of a great man on his body. According to Buddhist tradition, a mahapurusha can be of two kinds- a world conqueror or a world renouncer. Suddhodana did not want his son to turn his back on the world and hence took great pains to shield him from its sorrows, bringing him up in a highly artificial atmosphere, surrounded by luxury and pleasant things. Siddhartha married a young woman named Yashodhara and they had a son named Rahula. The hagiography tells us that when he was 29 years old, Sidd

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

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                                  To understand the Russian Revolution it's very important to know the Marxist-Leninist school of thought. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels established a new school or approach to the study ideas of materialism and class struggle. The Marxists believe that history represents how the struggle between the haves and have nots is taking shape. They both viewed colonialism and nationalism as structurally incapable of fulfilling the task of modernization in the colonies. Marx always advocated the rights of the proletariat (workers) and wanted equal distribution of profit among all workers instead of accumulation into one hand. Lenin further carried Marx's ideas by advocating dictatorship on behalf of proletariate to disband the monopoly of private landholders. This philosophy is as known as Marxist-Leninist philosophy. The Russian Revolution can be divided into two revolutions that led to the demise of the Tsarist regime of Russia and eventual

Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

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HIDDEN LETTER   I t's very crucial, to begin with, the real picture of the horror of the holocaust because any wrong conclusion would be unfair with millions of innocent souls. In 1980 a letter belongs to Marcel Nadjari was found in Auschwitz which gave us a glimpse of the holocaust. In the letter, he tried to describe what he saw to his family and world. Hitler(center) and Goebbels(left) leaving after meeting 1932   When the package was discovered it was soaked through, leaving the handwriting barely legible. But with the help of a new multi-spectral procedure, Russian historian Pavel Polian has reconstructed 90% of the shocking eye-witness report from inside the Nazi extermination machine. Nadjari was a Greek Jew brought to Auschwitz in April 1944. Two years earlier, his parents and younger sister, Nelli, were among the first Greek Jews to be deported and killed. In Auschwitz, Nahjari became a member of the Sonderkommando who accompanied new arrivals to changing rooms

French Revolution 1789

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Some of the most important causes of the French Revolution?  French Revolution was started on 5 May 1789 because of several reasons. In 1774 Louis XVI of the Bourbon family of kings ascended the throne of France, throne came along with severe challenges. Upon his accession, the new king found an empty treasury because of long years of war which drained the financial resources of France. Under Lois XVI, France helped the thirteen American colonies to gain their independence from the common enemy Britain. The war added than a billion livres to a debt that had already risen to more than 2 billion  livres.  The storming of the Bastille Lenders who gave the credit now began to charge 10 percent interest on loans this was very high. To meet its regular expenses, such as the cost of maintaining an army, the court, running government offices, etc. The French society in the 18th  century was divided into three estates, and only the members of the third estates were obliged to pay t